Germany
Found in 1099 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 08 Feb 1936
Cutting from The Times - article A Rearmed Germany - Defences of Holland.
(Untitled), 04 Jul 1936
(Untitled), 07 Mar 1936
Copy of a letter from WSC to [Pierre] Flandin [Minister of State, France] marked "confidential" asking for French information about the present strength of the German Air Force, predicting 2,000 aircraft by the end of 1936, and asking for information about French expenditure on aviation services for use in debates in Parliament.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1936
Copy of a letter from WSC to Eleanor Rathbone MP marked "private" enclosing a paper by Sir Henry Strakosch, explaining the basis for his figures for German expenditure [on rearmament], his use of confidential sources and his efforts "to find out the truth". He concludes "We really are in great danger."Unsigned carbon typescript.
(Untitled), 17 Oct 1938
Letter from G D Kirkland (683 West Monroe Street, Jacksonville, Florida [United States]) to WSC in response to his broadcast to the United States. She says that she considers WSC "guiltless" for Great Britain's failure to pay its debts and for [the Duke of Windsor earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] "being driven out as an exile for preferring an American wife [Wallis Simpson]" and that many Americans feel that WSC belongs with them. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1938
(Untitled), 02 Aug 1939
Speaking notes for WSC's speech supporting the early recall of Parliament from its summer adjournment, pointing to the dangers to European security posed by Germany, and commenting on the historical importance of the House of Commons.Partially handwritten by WSC, partially carbon typescript laid out in "psalm" form. Filing note present.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1945
Hansard report of WSC's speech on the War Situation: subjects covered include fighting in the Ardennes, the Soviet advance in Germany, the campaign in Burma [later Myanmar] and particularly the Civil War in Greece. Annotated in blue crayon.
(Untitled), 09 Feb 1954
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House, Washington} to WSC marked "personal" expressing pleasure at WSC's good health; commenting on outbursts by [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]; the importance of unity between free nations; and future history and legacy of leaders. Typescript.
(Untitled), 10 Dec 1948
(Untitled), 12 Sep 1948
Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London: Growing up in interesting times, 2000-06
Autobiography of [Frederick] Gerard Friedlander [Friedrich Gerhart Friedlander], 1917-35, on his early life, and his mother Ruth Fischer, founder of the Austrian Communist Party, a prominent member of the German Communist Party, and a member of the "left" or Trotskyite opposition to Stalin in the Soviet Union.
Visit to Berlin, 1959-04-06 - 1959-04-07
Album on CS’s visit to Germany as Secretary of State for War, to see British armed forces.
Visit to Essen, Germany, 1998-07
Schedule, briefings and notes for NK’s opening of a traffic control centre.
Visit to West Germany [later part of Germany], 1985-11
Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.
Visits, 1986-10
Includes: German press cuttings of NK’s visit to Berlin [Germany]; arrangements and briefing for NK’s meeting with Allan Boesak, South African United Democratic Front; notes on a request for sponsorship from "Jarrow 86".
Visits and meetings, 1991-05 - 1991-06
Walter Neill: Correspondence and papers
Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.